Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010hia....15..750g&link_type=abstract
Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 15, p. 750-750
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Around high-mass Young Stellar Objects (YSOs), outflows are expected to be launched and collimated by accretion disks inside radii of 100 AU. Strong observational constraints on disk-mediated accretion in this context have been scarce, largely owing to difficulties in probing the circumstellar gas at scales 10-100 AU around high-mass YSOs, which are on average distant (>1 Kpc), form in clusters, and ignite quickly whilst still enshrouded in dusty envelopes. Radio Source I in Orion BN/KL is the nearest example of a high-mass YSO, and only one of three YSOs known to power SiO masers. Using VLA and VLBA observations of different SiO maser transitions, the KaLYPSO project (http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/kalypso/) aims to overcome past observational limitations by mapping the structure, 3-D velocity field, and dynamical evolution of the circumstellar gas within 1000 AU from Source I. Based on 19 epochs of VLBA observations of v=1,2 SiO masers over ~2 years, we produced a movie of bulk gas flow tracing the compact disk and the base of the protostellar wind at radii < 100 AU from Source I. In addition, we have used the VLA to map 7mm SiO v=0 emission and track proper motions over 10 years. We identify a narrowly collimated outflow with a mean motion of 18 km/s at radii 100-1000 AU, along a NE-SW axis perpendicular to that of the disk traced by the v=1,2 masers. The VLBA and VLA data exclude alternate models that place outflow from Source I along a NW-SE axis. The analysis of the complete (VLBA and VLA) dataset provides the most detailed evidence to date that high-mass star formation occurs via disk-mediated accretion.
Chandler Catherine
Goddi Ciriaco
Greenhill Lincoln
Humphreys Elizabeth
Matthews Lorin
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